You have several options with rtf, most of them quite good. unrtf is available as a .deb for Debian systems. rtf2html is the one I have on my Fedora systems. I'm sure there are others. Try Google: rtf text html Linux and see what you get. Toby Fisher writes: > Hi folks. > > As many of you do, I used to use the tag line about not sending Word or > Ppt files, however I've discovered a rather unfortunate side-effect, and > was wondering if it's afflicted anyone else. > > I have to take delivery of quite a lot of docs from people who use MS > Office, and after seeing my signature, they try to be kind by sending me > an rtf document. At least with a Word doc, you can do: > > cat foo.doc |strings |less > and get pretty much all of the text together and it's readable; but what > the *#@! do you do about an rtf file which is much bigger, and has loads > of crap between all the words? > > Just wondering. > > Cheers. > > p.s. you'll notice I've removed it now, not least because I now have a > Windows lap top that was paid for. > > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
